SSC MTS Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 21–27 September 2026

The correct answer is National Action for Mechanized Sanitation Ecosystem. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment defines NAMASTE exactly this way, and describes its aim as ensuring the safety and dignity of sanitation workers by creating an enabling ecosystem that recognises their contribution to the operation and maintenance of sanitation infrastructure. Option B is wrong because the scheme is not framed as a mission for advanced sanitation technology, and the word mission does not appear in its name. Option C is wrong because it is not a municipal training agency and it is not confined to urban local bodies alone. Option D is wrong because NAMASTE is not an authority for sewerage treatment but a scheme centred on workers. Full forms of welfare schemes are frequently asked, so learn the expansion word for word.

The correct answer is Swachhta Mein Sahbhag - Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat. The theme joins two ideas, participation in cleanliness and the goal of a developed India, and every activity held under the campaign is expected to reflect it. The Swachhata Samvad at the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes at Hisar was organised under exactly this theme, which is why the release names it. Option A reads like a slogan built from the campaign's own title but is not the theme announced for this edition. Option C is invented and merely strings together familiar words about complete cleanliness. Option D names a well-known call for a shared hour of voluntary cleaning work, which is a separate initiative rather than the theme of this campaign. Aspirants should keep the theme and such campaign slogans apart, since both appear in question papers.

The correct answer is the shot put. Tajinderpal Singh won silver in the men's shot put with an impressive throw, and the Prime Minister noted that his focus and perseverance have brought India laurels over and over, so this medal is another milestone in a long career. Options A, B and D name the javelin, the discus and the hammer, which are also throwing events in athletics but not the one in which he competed here, so they are wrong. Aspirants should link his name firmly with the shot put, because papers often list four throwing events as options. On the same day India's other athletics medal came from Prachi Choudhary, who took bronze in the women's 400m. His silver was one of the two silver medals India took that day, the other coming from the women’s rifle team event in shooting.

The correct answer is 343 tonnes. The plant in Uttar Pradesh takes in that quantity of organic waste each day and yields about twenty-one tonnes of bio-CNG, along with twenty-eight tonnes of good quality compost that goes to farmers nearby. Its multi-feedstock design accepts wet waste, paddy straw, cattle dung and poultry litter, which is what lets it give crop residue a paying use instead of leaving it to be burnt. Options A at 143 tonnes, B at 243 tonnes and D at 443 tonnes are near misses built by changing the leading digit, a trap that catches a candidate who remembers only the last two digits of the figure. Aspirants should also hold on to the linked numbers for this plant: daily wet-waste supply has risen from seven or eight tonnes to about 125 tonnes, piped gas is expected to reach roughly 45,000 households, and annual emissions are expected to fall by about 57,000 tonnes.

The correct answer is Rajasthan. The Ministry of Culture drew attention to a group of mementos in this year's auction that stand for the state's folk deities, devotional painting, textile craft, architectural heritage and sporting achievement, from the Ambabari elephant with its howdah to the silver figures of Veer Tejaji Maharaj. Gujarat is wrong because none of the pieces in this set is drawn from it. Madhya Pradesh is wrong as well: the temples and shrines named in the catalogue, such as the Brahma Temple at Pushkar and the Ajmer Sharif Dargah, all lie in Rajasthan. Odisha is a tempting choice because one artwork is done in the Pattachitra style, which is associated with that state, but the subject is Krishna Raas Leela within a Rajasthan collection, so the style alone does not change the answer.

The correct answer is Anahat Singh, who finished second in the women's singles squash draw and was praised for holding her own against some of the strongest players in the competition. Option B, Harita Bhadra, is an athlete, not a squash player: she won bronze in the women's 200m sprint on her debut at the Games. Option C, Ancy Sojan, won her silver in the women's long jump, a field event in athletics. Option D names another Indian squash player who was not among the medallists congratulated on this occasion. A companion fact to store with this one is that the men's singles squash silver went to Abhay Singh, so India took the runner-up place in both singles categories of the sport on the same day.

The correct answer is Men's Decathlon. Tejaswin Shankar finished third in the men's decathlon at the Asian Games and took the bronze medal, and the achievement was praised because the decathlon spreads demanding events across two days and asks for versatility, endurance and resolve together. Option A, the heptathlon, is a different combined event and is not the one in which this medal was won. Option C, the pentathlon, is likewise a different combined event with fewer disciplines. Option D, the marathon, is a single long-distance road race and has nothing to do with a combined event. Aspirants should remember the athlete with the decathlon and with the colour bronze, because a question may keep the name and change only the event.

The correct answer is 90,186. The Ministry's Secretary stated that the sewer and septic tank workers component now covers all 36 States and Union Territories, and that this many workers have been validated. The validated workforce is made up of 86,468 men, 3,713 women and five transgender persons, and these sub-totals add up to the figure in the correct option, which is a quick way to verify the answer. Options A and C are wrong because they do not match any figure reported for this component. Option D is a deliberate trap, because that number belongs to the separate waste picker component, where the profiled count covers 34 States and Union Territories rather than 36. Keeping the two components apart is the key to answering this question correctly.

The correct answer is buffaloes, at Hisar. The abbreviation expands to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research - Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, and the institute works under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. It was this institute that held the Swachhata Samvad for its contractual staff and Young Professionals as part of the campaign's Day-VIII action plan. Option A names an institute devoted to goat research at a different station, option C a body working on camels, and option D one working on poultry; all three are of the same family of council institutes, which is precisely why they make good distractors. For examinations it helps to remember the animal, the station and the parent ministry as a single unit, because questions on such institutes usually ask for the pairing of a research subject with its headquarters.

The correct answer is Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar. The pair won bronze in the squash mixed team event, and for Joshna the medal extended a remarkable run of consistency, since she has played at consecutive Asian Games and taken a medal at every edition since 2010. Option A is wrong because Manush Shah and Diya Chitale won their bronze in mixed doubles table tennis, a different sport on the same day. Option C names two of the three shooters who won silver in the women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions team event, so it is wrong here. Option D pairs a sprinter with a thrower, neither of whom took part in squash. Keep each sport with its own athletes when revising a medal day.

The correct answer is Gwalior, in Madhya Pradesh. Adarsh Gaushala stands at Laltipara and is the city's largest cowshed, home to more than ten thousand cattle. Its compressed bio-gas plant of 100 tonnes per day opened in October 2024, spread over five acres, cost 31 crore rupees and was developed with Indian Oil Corporation. It is also the state's first such plant designed to take vegetable and fruit waste from markets and homes along with dung, and it converts 100 tonnes of dung a day into two tonnes of gas and ten to fifteen tonnes of dry bio-manure. Option A, Bhopal, is the state capital but not the site. Option C, Indore, is widely known for cleanliness rankings, which is exactly why it tempts a guess here. Option D, Jabalpur, is another large city of the same state and has no link to this facility.

The correct answer is 37 artefacts. That is the size of the Rajasthan set described by the Ministry of Culture, and the pieces are spread across woodwork, silver mementos of folk deities, devotional painting, textiles, framed views of heritage shrines and memorabilia of recent events and sporting achievement. The other three counts do not match the catalogue at all. Aspirants should hold the number together with the rest of the detail that goes with it: this is the eighth edition of the PM Mementos e-Auction, it stays open until the second day of October this year, and the full list of items along with the rules for taking part is placed on the official portal, pmmementos.gov.in, which the ministry named in its announcement.

The correct answer is the Women's Long Jump, where Ancy Sojan finished with silver in a performance the Prime Minister described as strong and spirited. Option A, the women's 200m, is the event in which Harita Bhadra won bronze, and mixing the two athletes up is the most likely error here. Options B and D name other jumping events that were not part of this medal. Note the pattern of the day for India in these disciplines: silver in the long jump, bronze in the 200m, and silver in both the men's and women's singles squash. Since three medals were silver and one bronze, examiners often test the colour of a specific athlete's medal rather than the overall count, so link each name to its own event and colour.

The correct answer is the Women's 3000m Steeplechase. Parul Chaudhary finished third in that race at the Asian Games and, on her way to the podium, clocked her personal best, which is the detail that made her bronze stand out. Options A, B and D name flat distance races on the track, and while they are all genuine athletics events, none of them is the race in which this particular bronze was won. The steeplechase differs from those flat races because it is run over barriers and a water jump. The Prime Minister called the performance brilliant and said her dedication and perseverance had made the country proud, so the event, the colour of the medal and the personal best should be revised together.

The correct answer is Rs 34.16 crore. Under the capital subsidy intervention for mechanisation, routed through the Swachhta Udyami Yojana, the Ministry reported that 983 beneficiaries have been supported with this amount. The purpose of the subsidy is to help sanitation workers acquire machines so that hazardous manual work is replaced by mechanised cleaning, which is the central idea of the NAMASTE Scheme. The other three options are wrong simply because no such amount is reported for this intervention; they are plausible looking figures placed to test whether the aspirant recalls the exact number. A useful habit is to memorise the amount together with the beneficiary count, since examiners often pair the two in a single statement and change only one of them.

The correct answer is a platform for dialogue and discussion to widen participation in cleanliness work. The action plan for the day envisages the Samvad in exactly these terms, so that awareness about hygiene and sustainable waste management spreads through conversation. That is why the organisers set aside the usual lecture format and instead invited participants to describe practical problems at home, at work and in the areas around them, and to offer suggestions. Option B turns the exercise into a ranking contest, which is not its purpose. Option C describes an external inspection, whereas the Samvad was an internal and voluntary discussion. Option D is the very method the organisers deliberately avoided, since a one-sided lecture would not have drawn out the experiences of those present. The session closed with a collective commitment rather than an assessment.

The correct answer is the women's 400m. Prachi Choudhary finished third in that race, and her run was praised for earning India a place on the podium. Options A and C, the 200m and the 800m, are other track distances and are wrong because her medal came over one lap. Option D is the trickiest distractor, since the 400m hurdles is a separate event with its own final; the medal in question came in the flat 400m. Along with Tajinderpal Singh's silver in the men's shot put, this was India's second athletics medal of the day, while shooting, table tennis and squash brought one medal each. Remembering the exact distance is essential, because a paper can offer several sprint options.

The correct answer is Hyderabad. At the Bowenpally Vegetable Market roughly ten tonnes of vegetable and fruit waste is collected each day, and since an on-site biogas plant came up almost all of it is used rather than sent to landfill. The plant makes about 400 to 500 units of electricity and 30 kg of biofuel daily, which run the streetlights, stalls, administrative building and water supply network, while the biofuel goes to the market's kitchen and to a generator that works wholly on biogas. The power bill has come down by about half from roughly three lakh rupees a month, and five more plants have been funded at Gudimalkapur, Gaddiannaram, Erragadda, Alwal and Saroornagar. Options A, B and D are large cities in other states and none of them was named for this model, so they only test whether the candidate has tied the market's name to the right city.

The correct answer is Nathdwara, the town linked with Pichwai painting, a form in which cloth hangings are made for the shrine of Shrinathji. The catalogue places these works beside a Phad painting of Lakshmi and Narayan and a Pattachitra-style picture of Krishna Raas Leela, all three being ways of telling a devotional story through art. Pushkar is wrong because it comes into the collection through the Brahma Temple, shown as part of the state's architectural heritage. Karauli is wrong because it appears with Kaila Mata, one of the revered deities represented in the set. Banswara is wrong because it is named for the painting of Mangarh Dham. Matching each art form or shrine to its town is the safest way to answer such questions.

The correct answer is bronze, on her debut at the Games. Harita Bhadra reached the podium in the women's 200m at her very first Asian Games, racing with confidence and determination according to the Prime Minister's message. Option A raises the medal to gold, which is not what she won. Option C changes both the colour and her experience at the Games, and silver in the sprint was not part of the day's results for India. Option D keeps the right colour but wrongly places her at a third Games. The debut detail is exactly the kind of tag that turns into a question, so pair it with the event and colour: women's 200m, bronze, first Asian Games. The other athletics medal of the day was Ancy Sojan's long jump silver.

The correct answer is two days. The bronze medal of Tejaswin Shankar was praised on the ground that competing across such demanding events over two days calls for exceptional versatility, endurance and resolve, and he showed all three while finishing his campaign strongly. Option A, one day, is wrong because a single day would not accommodate the spread of disciplines that makes the decathlon the test it is. Options C and D, three and four days, stretch the schedule beyond what was described. The two-day format is worth remembering because it explains why a decathlon medal is treated as a test of all-round ability rather than of a single skill, and examiners like to ask about the format alongside the medal.

The correct answer is NSKFDC, the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation. The Secretary of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment said the scheme promotes sustainable livelihoods, capacity building, access to safety gear and mechanisation through interventions implemented by this corporation. The name itself carries the clue, because Safai Karamcharis are the very workers the scheme is built around. Option A is wrong because that corporation works for scheduled caste beneficiaries in general and is not named as the implementing body here. Option C is wrong because it serves backward classes and has no role stated in this release. Option D is wrong because it works for minority communities. Matching a scheme with its implementing corporation is a standard question pattern in general awareness papers.

The correct answer is October 2014. Scientific management of municipal solid waste has been a core objective of the mission since that launch, and as the mission grew, organic waste came to be treated as a resource for clean energy rather than as rubbish. The waste-to-energy work described at Prayagraj, Gwalior, Hyderabad and Gandhinagar all falls under the urban arm of the mission in its second phase. Option B, August 2014, is close enough in the same year to catch a hasty reader, but it is the wrong month. Option C, October 2015, keeps the right month and moves the year by one, the commonest form of trap in date questions. Option D, April 2016, matches neither. A helpful anchor is that cleanliness is tied to the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which falls on the second of October, so the month of the launch is easy to fix in memory.

The correct answer is the 8th edition, open until 2 October. The Ministry of Culture said this year's auction is the eighth in the series and that bidding stays live until the second day of October, with the dates, the way to take part and the whole catalogue placed on the portal pmmementos.gov.in. The other options change either the edition number or the closing date, and each is wrong for that reason alone. A safe way to remember the facts is to tie the edition to the state chosen for this catalogue, Rajasthan, and to the size of that set, which runs to a few dozen artefacts covering folk deities, painting, textiles, shrines and sporting memorabilia. Questions on this scheme usually ask for the edition, the ministry or the portal.

The correct answer is Men's Singles Squash. Abhay Singh finished second in the men's singles draw, and the Prime Minister noted that the medal reflected years of hard work along with his skill and determination. Option B moves him into the doubles draw, which was not the event of this medal. Options C and D shift the medal to badminton and table tennis, two other racquet sports in which India competes at multi-sport Games but which had no part in this result. Keep the squash pair together in memory, since both medallists share a surname and both won silver: Abhay Singh in the men's singles and Anahat Singh in the women's singles. The other two medals of the day came in athletics, from Ancy Sojan and Harita Bhadra.